John Forbes Nash, Jr

Part I.
Look at the following words and then be ready to provide a synonym that could replace
that word in the context. Use online dictionaries such as WordReference, Merriam-
webster, or the free dictionary.
For example:
 Insight: Understanding (noun)
 
1. Latter: last (adj.)
2. Loosely: freely (adj.)
3. Pursued: seek (verb)
4. Chairman: president (noun)
5. Earned: garner (verb)
6. Crucial: decisive (adj.)
7. Symptoms: signs (sust.)
8. Inaccurately: erroneously (sust.)
9. Depiction: representation (noun)
10. Prolific: productive (sust.)
 
 Part II
Complete the chart with the information from John Forbes Nash’ life (1 point)
Use keywords to answer.
 
   
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
 
Born  Bluefield, West Virginia
Residence  Princeton, New Jersey
Parents  John and Virginia
Brothers and sisters younger sister Martha
Nationality  American (U.S)
Fields Mathematic, game theory, differential
geometry, and partial differential
equations, Chemical Engineering,
Chemistr
Institutions  Princeton University, Carnegie Institute of
Technology (Carnegie Mellon University)
Alma mater Princeton University
Doctoral advisor Albert W. Tucker,
Spouse Alicia López-Harrison de Lardé
Part III
 
Summarize the most important facts of John Forbes Nash’s life in three events.
According to the reading, what are the three most important events in John Forbes
Nash’s life?
 
Event 1
 The first symptoms of mental
 
 
Event 2
 The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
 
 
Event 3
 The 2001 Hollywood movie A Beautiful Mind. The film, loosely based on the biography
of the same name, focuses on Nash's mathematical genius and his schizophrenia.
 
 
Part IV
 
Answer the following questions based on the information from the text.
 
1. Why did John Forbes Nash prefer to be at Princeton University?
Because of its location closer to his family in Bluefiel

2. ¿What topics about John Forbes Nash, Jr.’s life it is related in Beautiful Mind’s
movie?
Focuses mathematical genius and his schizophrenia.

3. What did his wife Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Lardé study?

She studied physics

4. Why did John Nash Forbes receive the Nobel prize?

Because discovered of non-cooperative equilibria, now called Nash equilibria.

5. John Forbes Nash's theories influenced what areas of knowledge?

His theories influenced in market economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial
intelligence, accounting, politics and military theory
Part V.
 
Be ready to answer the final questions from the text.
 
1. What was the purpose of this text?
The purpose of the text is to know about the life of John Forbes Nash
2. What is the text about? What is the main topic?
The text is about life and contributions that jhon managed to make in the field of mathematics.
3. What is your opinion about John Forbes Nash?
He is a very academically prepared person and he made some very important discoveries for
science that are currently being used